Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 22, 1894
Enid Markey
Biography
From Wikipedia
Enid Markey was born in Dillon, Colorado. Her first film role was in The Fortunes of War (1911). During the production of The Wrath of the Gods (1914), Markey, a "leading lady with the New York Motion Picture Company", was "badly injured" during the production. During her scene in which the lava flow destroys the village she was surrounded by smoke and fumes and nearly asphyxiated, but had recovered by May 1914.
Her last appearance was in The Boston Strangler (1968).
During the 1950s and 1960s she appeared in several television guest-starring roles, including The Andy Griffith Show as Barney Fife's landlady, and an episode of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., as Grandma Pyle.
In the 1960-1961 season, Markey was cast as Aunt Violet Flower in CBS's Bringing Up Buddy, co-starring Frank Aletter and Doro Merande.
Markey and Merando played spinster aunts who provide a home for their bachelor nephew stockbroker, Buddy Flower, played by Aletter.
She died in Bay Shore, New York, aged 87.
Known For - Movies
The Boston Strangler
as Edna
The Naked City
as Mrs. Hylton
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
as Emily
Take One False Step
as Clara (uncredited)
Civilization
as Katheryn Haldemann
Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Country Girl in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
Shell 43
as Adrienne von Altman
The Cup of Life
as Ruth Fiske
Tarzan of the Apes
as Jane Porter
Snafu
as Aunt Emily
Known For - TV Shows
The Andy Griffith Show
as Mrs. Mendelbright
The Philco Television Playhouse
Studio One
The Defenders
as Elspeth Clarendon
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Cecelia Smithson
Omnibus
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Lux Video Theatre
as Abigail
Bringing Up Buddy
as Aunt Violet Flower
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Caroline Webster